Issue 4

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 4: Changes to Ariadne and How to Read the Web Version

  The editor explains changes in Ariadne format.

• Are They Being Served?

  Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs.

• Charging Ahead?

  Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• Globally Yours

  Hazel Gott gives a brief overview of the Follett Lecture Series, where overseas experts in the fields of Library and Information Science speak in various UK locations.

• MIDRIB

  Julian Cook describes a project that deals with the storage and access of medical images.

• TAPin: Training and Awareness Programme in Networks

  Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area.

• ResIDe: Electronic Reserve for UK Universities

  Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England.

• ILEJ: Internet Library of Early Journals

  Hugh Wellesley-Smith turns back the clock with a description of the Internet Library for early journals digitisation project.

• JILT: Journal of Information, Law and Technology

  Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law.

• IMPEL2: What Is eLib Doing to Us All?

  Catherine Edwards describes the IMPEL2 project, from the Supporting Studies area of the programme.

• Libtech '96: eLib goes to Libtech '96

  John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at the Libtech '96 event.

• Best eLib Project Web Pages

  In the spring, we held a competition for those eLib projects that had, to date, produced and mounted their own set of Web pages. Here, we announce the winner...

• Research Elsewhere

  John Kirriemuir gives calls attention to articles describing research of interest elsewhere.

• Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection

  Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems.

• TLTP: Teaching and Learning Technology Programme

  Joanna Tiley describes TLTP. The Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK, is a collection of 70+ projects aimed to 'make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology'.

• The Importance of Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS): The European Connection

  David Kay describes ACTS, the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services, a programme under the European Community 4th Framework Research & Technology Development Programme, consisting of around 120 projects.

• NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web

  Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site.

• Netlinks Symposium

  Sarah Ashton reports from the Netlinks Symposium, organised by the Netlinks eLib project and the Department of Information Studies in the University of Sheffield.

• JUGL

  Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

• Cashing in on Caching

  Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it.

• Netskills Corner: Redesigning Your Web Pages?

  Brian Kelly gives some sensible advice on designing (or, as is more likely, redesigning) Web pages.

• Moral Rights

  Charles Oppenheim describes the issues and pitfalls in this often overlooked area of copyright legislation. If you are involved in any digital libraries project that deals with other peoples' material held in an electronic form, read this article.

• Wire: Brian Kelly

  Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking.

• Down Your Very Long Way Away

  J. Correia describes the use of the Internet in Macau.

• Interface

  John MacColl talks to Peter Nathan, acting president and distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Iowa.

• View from the Hill

  John MacColl meets Ian Kingston, a freelance copy-editor, proof-reader and typesetter.

• Minotaur

  Dinty Moore, author of The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, worries about who will be the gatekeepers of online information in the future.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside takes his first tentative step in Web page creation.

• Around the Table

  Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars.

• Poem: Aurelia Aurita

  Ralph Hancock with this issue's poem. This poem appears in the Web magazine Living Poets , Volume 1, Number VII, April 1996. It is reprinted by permission of the editor.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Sideline: Skinheads in Cambridge

  In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Jim Huntingford is Subject Librarian for Accountancy, Management and Law at The University of Abertay, Dundee.